A Repetition Of 2008 Failed Tactics

NPP’s Mischief About President’s Health…


Many might have thought that the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its apologists had learnt some lessons from the humiliating defeat that party suffered in the hands of the good people of Ghana in the 2008 general elections, when they decided to churn out lies about the health of President John Evans Atta Mills.
With virtually no message in 2008 to convince Ghanaians as to why they should be retained in power, the NPP, with the help of its media hirelings, launched serious crusade to spread out falsehood about candidate Mills, to the extent of planning his ‘funeral’.
Following the extreme anxiety on the part of Akufo-Addo and his Akyem cartel to win power at “all cost”, before his (Mills’s) arrival from South Africa where he had gone to receive medical attention, the news of his death was all over the place.
Against all the vile propaganda, Ghanaians defied all odds to vote for candidate Mills in 2008 to become President of Ghana; knowing that under his watch, Ghana will not continue to receive bad publicity worldwide, as a major transit point for drugs, notably, cocaine.
Having realized today that, with the unprecedented achievements of the President Mills-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, as against the morally bankrupt image of its flagbearer, Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, they stand no chance of winning this year’s election, the NPP, enjoying the support of its media hirelings, is once again declaring the President dead.
Even though, it is undeniable fact that the NPP and its “all die be die” flagbearer are in for another humiliating defeat, recent tittle-tattles being peddled all over the place by some members of the NPP, confirms further, how they fear the presence of the President as far as this year’s election is concerned.
However, some discerning Ghanaians who spoke to The Informer, said they will vote for President Mills to continue his good work; and that no vile propaganda against him, will change their mind.
“Whether President Mills is sick and dying or not, they still prefer him to somebody who is known internationally, as a notorious womanizer and a drug-user”, one Maame Adjoa has told The Informer.
Another caller, Yakubu Isha, on his part, said, the NPP and its media hirelings can continue to pronounce the President dead like they did in 2008, yet still its flagbearer cannot become President.
“Once they have decided to repeat their vile propaganda about the President’s health, they will equally get a repetition of the outcome of the 2008 election results, come December 07.
The President, however, has condemned the latest rumours that he has passed on, during his interaction with the press prior to his departure to United States (US) for a routine medical check-up.
He told reporters at the Kotoka International Airport before his departure that, there was no cause for alarm and that the check-up was a normal one.

"Indeed, this is not the first time I've heard people say this about me...Let me just say that I'm very, very, very strong. And I don't know the basis for saying that I'm dead," he told the press at the airport.

"Well, let me just say that under our constitution the president has a duty to inform Parliament, to inform them whenever he's going outside the country. What I have decided to do is to go for a medical check-up. And this will not be the first time. I go there and they make sure everything is okay."

"So I'm going for a few days and then come back”, he concludes.
Those of us at The Informer, are however throwing challenge to the NPP to produce its flagbearer for a thorough medical examinations, so as to ascertain his health status and, most importantly, to determine whether he uses drug or not.
In fact, The Informer is prepared to shoulder the medical bills of the two personalities (President Mills and Nana Akufo-Addo) and, therefore, calls on the NPP to make its leader available.